There you go, sir, you've pinned it down with some of the very best thinkers (Laozi, Buddha, Heraclitus, Democritus & Epicurus ... Artie & Freddy ... ...
Your threads might go further if you directly answer questions in such a way that your answers engender counterpoint-to-counterpoint (dialectical) rep...
Worse than that: anything at all – true, false, nonsensical – "follows" from a contradiction (re: principle of explosion). Only propositions convey tr...
I find the OP both unsound & irrelevant to the question of 'theism's truth-value'. But okay, you disagree with my argument; third-parties, I suspect, ...
More or less. The map-territory metaphor (A. Korzybski) refers to abstracting information from the world in order to make predictions about the world....
Re: To All ... Interesting but irrelevant, even incoherent, because you're overthinking a quote that does not refer to what's actually being pursued i...
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An addendum in the wake of recent war crimes and atrocities committed by the State of Israel as it continues 50+ years on to oppress the dispossessed ...
And given that "our present" so far has lasted about two hundred and fifty millennia (and counting), this "fate" is not locally experienced to be as o...
For me, "the gods" are the scars which still wound us most with lessons we refuse to learn. Concept-idols by which we measure our pain. (Thales, Willi...
Not Whiteheadian (or Bergsonian) in the least as far as I can tell. I take Spinoza, Zapffe, Wittgenstein, Cioran, Jaspers, Camus, Haack, Rosset, Meill...
No clue. Approximately 60%-75% of GDP in neoliberal securitized late capitalist / shareholder states are consumption-driven; starve the beast and the ...
Shareholder states are statist. Stakeholder governance is anti-statist. 'The legitimacy crisis' is reduced, maybe eliminated completely, only by the l...
"Explains everything" is the maximal, complete, 1-to-1 map of the territory, which is merely the terrority itself, and therefore useless as a map. The...
Popularized philosophy is sophistry. (Plato) Popularized science is PR for taxpayer-funded experiments and R&D. Both will survive – philosophy and sci...
We have symbolic perspectives on reality (vide Cassirer, Langer) but that in no way entails that 'reality is symbolic' (pace Plato, Berkeley). Such co...
The "ToE" is like the "BB" – an ironic misnomer. Quantum Gravity is what "ToE" is about: the unification, or subsumption under a third, more fundament...
My two bit(con)s – I believe banning should be reserved for bad conduct, specifically refusing to comply with a Moderator's instructions either posted...
@"Jack Cummins" I don't see the point of your question. Whether the world, or existence, or reality, is "solid" or not, what difference does it make e...
There are two ways to address an argument: (1) criticism by analysis and (2) criticism by providing a stronger, alternative / counter argument. I chos...
Cui bono? the Romans said. Who suffers more in blood and humiliiation than whom – the weaker. Who effectively controls the lives and livelihoods of wh...
1) One is "the problem of solipsism". See Witty's "Private Language Argument". Another is "the problem of induction" (i.e. causal relations, causality...
The question for me is whether theism is true or not true, and therefore determining (A) 'true = theism', (B) 'not true = atheism', or (C) 'unknowable...
To further clarify the object of our dispute, consider: For clarity's sake, designating which deities are at issue in 'for / against arguments' or (me...
It's a very ancient term and means both "illusion" and "appearance" (as well as "magic"). I use maya as a correlate to subjectivity, etc to punctuate ...
Well said. This lack of conviction is all around me here in the self-professed "Bible Belt" of the US where "belief", no doubt, is waved like a bloody...
Bias for or against a stereotype (i.e. "group characteristics" occluding individual character) is prejudice. This psychological shorthand is, of cours...
I hazard to interpret Dennett's meaning that "consciousness or mind" is not a thing but a process. For me, minding is to brain as breathing is to lung...
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I'm for a moderator. Rendezvous Tuesday it is. Have one in mind by then, 3017; let's not waste each other's time putting on a shitshow without moderat...
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